#25 BUILDING RESILIENCE: Sets & Reps – with Eat Clean founder & master wellness coach Tosca Reno

Resilience: the capacity to recover from adversity. Meet Tosca Reno, “the woman with 9 lives,” Eat Clean founder, and master wellness coach.  In this, the first in this 3-episode series on Self-Talk, Tosca takes us through the “set and reps” necessary for resilience, including seeking challenges, positive stress (or eustress), taking ownership, practicing gratitude, and being kind and compassionate. Yes, adversity can make you stronger!  References & Links Tosca Reno * Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/toscareno/ * Website – toscareno.com * Tosca’s Books – https://toscareno.com/books/ * Recommendations – * “Legends & Losers” by Christopher Lochhead – legendsandlosers.com * Lianne Liang – lianneliang.com Resources & References * Eustress or positive stress – https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustress * Abraham Hicks & the Emotional Scale – https://www.abraham-hicks.com Talk About Talk * Weekly Email Blog – https://talkabouttalk.com/blog/#newsletter-signup * Andrea – [email protected]   Interview Transcript Dr. Andrea Wojnicki: Thank you very much Tosca for joining us and talking with us today about resilience. Tosca Reno: It’s my pleasure to be with you. Thanks for inviting me. AW: I thought we would start at the bottom. TR: Oh, it’s a good place when you have to go up. AW: Yeah. So what did your life look like? And how did you end up there when you were at the bottom? TR: So it was in my 30s. And I weighed 204 pounds that my heaviest, so I was obese, and clinically, not well. So I was beginning to get the early signs of type two diabetes. I knew like a lifestyle diabetes. And my father had died of heart disease young, he was only 64. And I was starting to get heart palpitations. So I was really young to be experiencing all these things. And I had a young family as well. So life at the time was really just a series of having babies and moves. My then husband was with Imperial Oil. And so we were always moving for his career. So there’s really not a lot of opportunity for me to work, even though I was I was schooled myself and wanted to have a career. But I was blessed to be able to stay home with my children. It’s just that I was very underserved, and felt the lack of worth and then lonely and isolated and ate my way into oblivion. It wasn’t cute. AW: So then, you divorced him? TR: Yes, I made a decision to go out on my own. So in 1999, I served notice, and I went back to school as a mature student and got my degree in education. I have a couple of other degrees but got my degree in education thinking, Okay, I’m going to, I’m going to become a teacher, I’ll teach and I’ll make a living for myself, because I wasn’t really at the time gainfully employed. So did that. And then, you know, as luck would have it, began my journey into wellness, albeit with a limited scope, because then I thought wellness was simply strapping on your running shoes and running, I hadn’t thought about changing the way I ate other than counting calories, which is a foolish notion. And so I really needed an education in that. But first, I had to fall a few times. So literally,